Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Negro Henry Armstrong wore three crowns: world's featherweight, lightweight and welterweight boxing championships. Last winter, staggering under the responsibility of this multiple headdress, he tossed off the featherweight crown because he considered it too bothersome to get his weight down to the required maximum of 126 Ibs. Last week, before a crowd of 30,000 in New York's Yankee Stadium, another crown-the lightweight-toppled off when onetime Champion Lou Ambers (Luigi D'Ambrosio), whom he had dethroned a year ago, was awarded the nod in a 15-round match for the title...
Edwin Howard Armstrong, bald, blue-eyed, well-heeled professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University, has made a tidy fortune for himself by inventing the super-regenerative and superheterodyne radio circuits. For the last 25 years he has been working on the problems of static, interference, tube noises and fading. Some time ago, in an effort to get perfectly clear reception, he devised a system of frequency modulation in the transmitter. According to standard broadcasting technique, which relies on amplitude modulation, this was heresy...
Last year Professor Armstrong built himself a 400-ft. tower on the Hudson River Palisades at Alpine, N. J.. began sending out experimental frequency-modulated programs. In a few experimental receivers they came in crystal clear, in every kind of weather. From the tower at Alpine the reception range is about 100 miles...
Commercial broadcasters, who use only amplitude-modulating transmitters, have so far only nibbled at the Armstrong system. But the high-fidelity, interference-free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn...
...nowadays she has her own private cabinet which governs the thinking of her column. Her chief adviser on economic problems is Alexander Sachs, an economist who works for Lehman Corp. and used to be head of NRA's economic research division. On foreign affairs she consults Hamilton Fish Armstrong, John Gunther, Quincy Howe. If she wants to know what the British are doing she calls Harold Nicolson in London. About France she talks to Raoul de' Roussy de Sales, U. S. correspondent for Paris-Soir. On Central Europe she calls any of her hundreds of refugee friends...